To overcome the problem of overconfidence in AI-piloted autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), a new AI navigation system has been developed that enables an AUV to determine its co...

The global release of the BlueBeam v2 software has been announced by WASSP, a world leader in multibeam sonar technology and part of the ENL Group. This marks a significant upgrade...

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Oceans Institute, a multidisciplinary marine research hub at the forefront of ocean science and marine innovation, has become the latest p...

An educational platform designed to make multibeam echosounder (MBES) surveying tangible for students, trainees and practising hydrographers has been released by the Department of...

A new integrated solution combines HydroSurv’s battery-electric and battery-hybrid USVs with Subnero’s Acoustic Smart Modems and underwater networking software. The res...

Autonomous underwater vehicles have long promised extended subsea endurance. Cellula Robotics and Defence Research and Development Canada are now producing evidence that the capabi...

With a headline target of contributing to 35% of the global ocean observing system by 2035 and capturing 35% of the global market for ocean observation technologies, the European C...

Ireland's national grid operator has contracted Fugro for a two-year passive acoustic monitoring programme along the south coast. This project marks the first operational deploymen...

Italian marine geoscience firm Next Geosolutions has secured a contract worth approximately €9 million from Dutch transmission system operator TenneT to conduct seabed surveys...

With the simultaneous launch of two next-generation ROVs and a cloud-based fleet management platform, Blueye Robotics has taken a significant step beyond hardware. This move signal...

In a deal designed to reduce cost, emissions and reliance on crewed offshore vessels, HydroSurv's REAV-60 USV is being paired with BeyonC's Syncro ROV – developed specificall...

Covering an area of just under one million square kilometres, the INFOMAR seabed mapping programme is one of the most ambitious marine survey projects in Ireland's history. Followi...

To address a data gap in a key part of the USA's nautical navigation infrastructure, the NOAA ship Thomas Jefferson is back in the Great Lakes. Western Lake Erie, a high-traffic co...

Klein Marine Systems has introduced the Mantis UUV, an integrated multi-channel sonar system engineered specifically for uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs). The launch signals the...

For the first time, an unmanned survey vessel purpose-built for offshore operations has completed a multi-day deployment at an active wind farm construction site. Van Oord's VO:X B...

Woolpert is conducting the first fully uncrewed offshore hydrographic survey mission on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Operating off the coas...

Six weeks after Queen Máxima christened the RV Anna Weber-van Bosse on the island of Texel, the Netherlands' new flagship ocean research vessel has embarked on its first sci...

Two newly launched products – Water Level Information (S-104) and Surface Currents (S-111) – mark a significant step forward in Norway's digital maritime navigatio...

Fugro is strengthening its ability to undertake controlled testing, verification and validation of equipment, systems and operational methodologies in-house, having recently succes...

Njord Survey has been awarded a three-year framework agreement by Equinor for pipeline inspection and integrity work across European waters. The contract builds on a track record o...

Australia has launched its first live shipboard trial of S‑100 digital navigation data, putting real-time tidal and current information directly onto the bridges of operational cru...

Rear Admiral Luigi Sinapi has been elected secretary general of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), with Adam Greenland of New Zealand voted in as the new director....

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has agreed a landmark partnership with Portugal's ARDITI, the Regional Agency for the Development of Research, Technology and Innovation. The...

Dr Parry Oei, senior adviser for hydrography at the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and former chief hydrographer of Singapore, has been awarded the Prince Albert I...

Spotter Scout, a rugged, solar-powered USV that enables persistent ocean sensing in remote and deep-water locations, has been launched by Sofar Ocean, one of the leading ocean inte...

A new study describes an AI-powered technique that can measure ocean surface currents over broad areas in greater detail than ever before. Among the co-authors is Nick Pizzo of the...

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced that 28.7% of the world's ocean floor has now been charted, with nearly five million square kilometres of new data add...

At 52 metres long and weighing 250 tonnes, Spectre is the largest and most capable platform launched so far by uncrewed surface vehicle developer and operator Saildrone. The vessel...

In one of the most sophisticated maritime security exercises currently underway, Teledyne Marine is putting its technology to the test during the 2026 SeaSEC Challenge Week. The ra...

A coalition of 11 government organizations has embarked on the UK's most ambitious collaborative seabed mapping exercise to date. Cutting-edge survey technology is being deployed t...